REACH Senior Assessment Officer
| Location | Khartoum, Sudan |
| Date Posted | April 4, 2020 |
| Category |
NGO
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| Job Type |
Full-time
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| Currency | SDG |
Description
BACKGROUND ON IMPACT AND REACH
REACH was born in 2010 as a joint initiative of two International NGOs (IMPACT Initiatives and ACTED) and
the United Nations Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT). REACH’s purpose is to promote
and facilitate the development of information products that enhance the humanitarian community’s decision
making and planning capacity for emergency, reconstruction and development contexts. REACH facilitates
information management for aid actors through three complementary services: (a) need and situation
assessments facilitated by REACH teams; (b) situation analysis using satellite imagery; (c) provision of related
database and (web)-mapping facilities and expertise.
IMPACT Initiatives is a humanitarian NGO, based in Geneva, Switzerland. The organisation manages several
initiatives, including the REACH Initiative. The IMPACT team comprises specialists in data collection,
management and analysis and GIS. IMPACT was launched at the initiative of ACTED, an international NGO
whose headquarter is based in Paris and is present in thirty countries. The two organizations have a strong
complementarity formalized in a global partnership, enabling IMPACT to benefit from ACTED’s operational
support on its fields of intervention.
We are currently looking for a REACH Senior Assessment Officer to support our Humanitarian
Situation Monitoring (HSM) unit in the Greater Bahr el Ghazals region of South Sudan.
Supervisor: REACH Research Manager
Position: REACH Senior Assessment Officer
Contract duration: 12 months
Location: Wau, South Sudan
Starting Date: ASAP
COUNTRY PROFILE
IMPACT, through REACH, has been implementing programming in South Sudan since 2012. Responding tothe Sudan Border Crisis, REACH initially engaged through coordinated information management support – in
the form of refugee camp mapping and service provision analyses, thematic assessments, and multi-sectoral
needs assessments – in Maban County, Upper Nile State and Pariang County, Unity State. IMPACT was
engaged by DFID to provide a series of impact evaluations of their BRACE programming across Greater Bahr
el Ghazal and Upper Nile States in 2013; a programme with run for two years, included 5 total assessments,
and reached a total of more than 20,000 households. Immediately following the conflict of December 2013,
REACH expanded its programming to include the IDP response, participating in Initial Rapid Needs